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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784062203321

Autore

Kossew Sue.

Titolo

Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction / / Sue Kossew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-44810-4

0-203-38918-2

1-134-44811-2

1-280-07410-8

0-203-38068-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 10

Disciplina

823/.914099287/0968

Soggetti

Australian fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

South African fiction (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Comparative literature - Australian and South African

Comparative literature - South African and Australian

Women - South Africa - Intellectual life

Women - Australia - Intellectual life

Women and literature - South Africa

Women and literature - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: place, space and gender; Contemporary Australian fiction; Introduction: post-bicentennial perspectives; The violence of representation: rewriting 'The Drover's Wife'; 'Gone bush': refiguring women and the bush; Another country: the 'terrible darkness' of country towns; Learning to belong: nation and reconciliation; Contemporary South African fiction; Introduction: new subjectivities; 'A white woman's words': the politics of representation and commitment; Rewriting the farm novel; Revisioning history

A state of violence: the politics of truth and reconciliationBeyond the national; Exile and belonging; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and analyses some contemporary responses to 'writing woman, writing place' through close readings of particular texts that explore these issues.Three main strands run through the readings offered in Writ